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Thank you for taking time to look at my photographs, allowing me to share the awe and wonder I felt when capturing them. I think of myself as an impressionist landscape photographer and often use the technique of HDR (high dynamic range) photography to display the wonder of the light as I actually see it. Some say these photos remind them of the impressionist painters. This is not coincidental since I have always admired their use of color. Of course, you will see my camera does find subjects other than landscapes!
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I finished from the Yokohama school yesterday much earlier than last week because now I do an earlier shift. I met up with gf at Yotsuya where like everywhere else it was raining quite hard.
Today I had a few things that needed to be taken care of. I finally have my bank card so yes, I can get money out but, I can't really because it looks like at the moment there isn't any money there to take out. I've been told the money should be in my account the 13th or the 14th.
We went to Shinjuku. First, we went to HQ. They asked me to fax them a copy of my passbook. Seeing that I was going to go there anyway I decided to walk into the office instead and get them to do a photocopy there. I was very casual and unshaven so this may not have been the best idea.
At HQ, I bought a can of "V x 11". It's an energy drink like the "V" energy drink we have in Australia. This must eleven times better right? Well I think it tastes very similar, but I don't think it was as strong as that.
I bought a pretty cool tshirt with a jap cartoon guitarist playing in front of amps.
It says on it, "To danger, I will pay no heed" and "I don't want to put the doubt in your mind, in my head you're just fine".
What tha? Well that's what I want. Shirts with bad english or something cool written in japanese.
We went to look at a guitar shop but half of it was closed for renovation. I tried the expensive version of the guitar I was looking for but I REALLY am not looking to spend $2000 on a guitar. It was ok but I wanted to try the guitars in the closed part of the store. It really annoyed me that I couldn't.
Finally I also got the screw for my sunglasses and they didn't charge me for it. I'm sure having gf there helped me not having to speak japanese to the staff.
I got a new pair of headphones. I spent eons trying to decide which one to get. I checked all the specs and I felt sorry for gf looking at me in disbelief that I would take so long. Gf picked up some really nice new pants she had altered.
All in all a really productive day! :D
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On A Mission In Shinjuku
I finished from the Yokohama school yesterday much earlier than last week because now I do an earlier shift. I met up with gf at Yotsuya where like everywhere else it was raining quite hard.
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Some who require totally new tactics. Something like a Megaspawn in X-COM3, or stuff? I'd totally fall for more different aliens to catch, to research, to bring more story in. Not to mention all the new tactics it would require, so people get something *new*, too, not only a graphically enhanced and bugfixed X-COM1.
Another idea:
It personally bugged me, besides that it makes no sense, that there were those alien combinations. Like, Sectoids/Cyberdisk, Snakeman/Chryssalids, Muton/Reapers .....
Wouldn't it be tactically harder, strategically more interesting, if you'd have like ...
Imagine a Terror mission:
A city gets attacked. The aliens drop out of the ship, or get beamed down, however, they are there.
Sectoids mind control the humans to get into the transporter beam / shuttle / whatever, while some reapers cause havoc. Snakeman and Mutons are standing everywhere, guarding their weak, grey comrades, for the case X-COM arives. Some Chryssalids wander around, infecting this or that human, to get the alien army bigger ...
X-COM lands. A tank rolls out, immediatly encountering a Reaper. Lucky us, its a laser-gatling tank (...)! It fires at the Reaper, which lights up and is on fire within a few seconds, roaming and running around in panic. Hearing the noise of their big hairy friend, the snakemen and mutons get in closer formation, protecting the sectoids, who abort the mission and try to bring the last humans to the mission point X, per mind control. The chryssalids are the first one to attack X-COM, they are easy replaceable - and not weak either.
... imagine all the tactics you'd need... the strategies ... the total new use and need of other weapons, the enhancement of the tactical part of X-com to adrenaline pumped fun.
What do you think? And sure, iam aware of what effort it would be to implement this - but i personally think it would make the tactical part about 200% better than in the original.
Same applies for bases. Why shouldn't there (and i mean, its a BASE! There HAS to be more than 2 races of aliens, dammit!) be all aliens crossed over, doing what ever they are best in? Sectoids, Ethereals in the command center, Snakeman and Mutons as guards - Floaters as scouts, heavy Aliens like cyberdisk and reapers in the entrance parts of the base...
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Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. In her masterful second book, Anne Germanacos gets right down to the elemental: the single line. TRIBUTE is a work of prose—novel, essay, experiment in narrative?—created from distinct lines, a work of continual shape-shift and exhilarating motion. TRIBUTE chronicles the daily life of a woman whose mother is dying and who begins to see a psychoanalyst, a woman who lives among lovers, sisters, and children, across continents and their conflicts (New York, San Francisco, Crete, Cyprus, Israel/Palestine). The book that results offers us both her story—forcefully sensual, vibrantly lived—and, through its bold form, her complex relationship to story. Germanacos's restless relationship to form is born of that most essential restlessness: desire. In TRIBUTE she documents desire's manifold incarnations, the body's and the mind's; she pays beautiful tribute to the force of desire and to those who have been bold enough to try to comprehend it—gentle echoes remind us of H.D. and her Freud. In the tradition of Clarice Lispector, David Markson, and Marguerite Duras, TRIBUTE takes us deep into the borderlands where fiction and nonfiction meet. The first book in Rescue Press's new series of innovative prose, this is a work of profound ambition and rare urgency."In a form all its own, navigating aphorism, journal, poetry, and novel, Anne Germanacos sounds out the profound territory of eros and grief, and their often unexplored interdependence. The beauty and agony of a mother's slow death, a daughter's striving body and perambulating mind: the sprawl of TRIBUTE contains both, and admirably explores stations of rage, stasis, melancholy, observation, and desire."—Maggie Nelson"Anne Germanacos's moving TRIBUTE is at once arrestingly precise, deeply mysterious, and wholly unexpected. Every sentence is written with the acuity and emotional complexity of a poem, and in the charged spaces in between these sentences, the inexpressible reposes—beyond grief, beyond love, there for the reader to recognize and absorb in a visceral, transformative way."—Dawn Raffel"Anne Germanacos's TRIBUTE is like nothing I have ever read before. A novel in poetic form, prose poetry, or her own invented style, this is an amazing, original and captivating read."—Louis Breger"What can language do to resolve grief, to forge or release intimacy? In TRIBUTE, Anne Germanacos responds to these mysteries by scouring and saving lit moments, phrases, and scraps... TRIBUTE is a passionate erasure back to bone... It could take years to read this book, or an afternoon—either would be right—depending on your capacity for the flash-wisdom of aphorism and the pace at which you take your shots of insight."—Lia Pupura"A kaleidoscope that can well hold a reader securely while containing a soul."—Robert Wallerstein"A master of silence and the subtle pass, Germanacos builds her absorbing and seductive narratives from a thousand fragments. Her paradoxes—intimate, edgy, and luminous—tease us through a maze of reflections on mothers and daughters, Freud, sex and desire, and politics."—Askold Melnyczuk"Anne Germanacos writes with wit and passion: she is a modern metaphysical poet. Her one-line fragments, discrete and connected, probe the desires and terrors of her embodied existence. Her words move us inward to our own most vital and painful zones."—Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
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Anne Germanacos is the author of the experimental novel TRIBUTE (Rescue Press, 2014), and the short story collection In the Time of the Girls (BOA Editions, 2010). Together with her husband, Nick Germanacos, she ran the Ithaka Cultural Studies Program on the islands of Kalymnos and Crete. She now runs the Germanacos Foundation in San Francisco. Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA


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Most of the time, those of us who live with chronic pain befriend and are related to individuals who try to understand why we feel what we do, but not always. There seems to be an unwritten rule that we run into insensitive nitwits when we do not feel like dealing with them. Do we become magnetic when we're having a down day or a rough time? "Come one, come all, jump into my business, and feel free to ask me hyper-personal questions about my health, my body, and my private life!" Quite often, unfortunately, relationships suffer from this degree of insensitivity exhibited by others, and we reach a point of exhaustion, frustration, and anger. Isn't life difficult enough? I would like you to put your tongue in your cheek, and join me as we explore the possibilities of smart-ass answers to dull, insensitive questions.
Why are you always going to the doctor?
You should see my doctor…what a hunk. He looks just like Tom Selleck and Matt Damon rolled into one luscious man. That's why I go as often as possible. And girl, don't even ask me about those days the stirrups are pulled out on the exam table!
I love the soft, comfortable couches in the waiting room and the unequivocal exposure you can get to every current virus. It's kind of a Russian roulette for the chronically ill.
If you whine and carry on a bit, you can get a cherry sucker, and if you throw a hissy-fit, you can even get a balloon…on a string. I'm waiting for Medicare to pay for helium.
Oh, I don't know. I've come to think of it as my home away from home where they always weigh you and ask you your age. Does it get any better than that?
Only a trip to the laboratory can make it better, all those needles and those tiny little cups — oh my, the thrill of it all.
Why are you limping?
Oh, you should try it. If you walk slowly enough and carry a cup, people will throw change into it.
I've got rhythm.
I'm keeping my knees dry and a steroid suppository in; you should try it.
I get more wear out of my shoes.
My underwear is too large and/or tight, and I'm too cheap to buy new ones.
Why don't you work anymore?
Oh, I got written up for lying down next to my patients.
It was against the health code for me to crawl up the hall while making rounds.
Once too often, in the emergency room, I found myself saying, "So? You think you're sick!"
I figured out I was taking more medications than most of my patients.
I couldn't get out of the car when I got home after an eight hour shift.
But you don't look sick!
I know, it's all inside trying to get out, better stand back a bit.
I don't think it's contagious but we could find out — how about a hug?
Oh, I know, it's the result of fifteen plastic surgeries and an hour in make-up every morning. What a blessing.
I'm bionic.
Keep it to yourself but the truth is I'm from another planet. Shhh…
Okay dear fellow chronic pain sufferers, go forth and know you are fully armed with answers for most questions.
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The National Association of State Chief Information Officers launched a new website to promote collaboration across jurisdictions and agencies within state and local government.
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The new website, www.nascio.org/advocacy/collaboration, highlights what are considered to be IT success stories taking place across the nation, and in addition, outlines by state ongoing projects that promote cross-boundary collaborative initiatives, according to NASCIO. Through a partnership with the Public Technology Institute, NASCIO researched what these collaborative initiatives share and used the research to highlight what the organization felt were examples of collaborative efforts that create efficiencies and cut costs.
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Last September, EPA began a "removal action" at the Alexsons Cleaners site, located at 46 High Street in Sanford. This clean up action was undertaken to address tetrachloroethylene (also known as perchloroethene or PCE) that was released into the soil and groundwater during the building's history as a dry cleaning establishment.
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Like the Infiniti car ads of the '90s that featured sweeping vistas of oceans and countryside ad nauseum but no sign of the vehicle, the picture accompanying this house in the Real Estate Weekly merely showed a country lane disappearing into some woods. Driving up to the house, one can see why– the biggest selling point might be the surrounding environs.
For several miles along a state-maintained gravel road in the wilds near Covesville and Hungrytown, the views are delicious. Blue mountains stretch out as far as the eye can see without a power line in sight.
So it is with some alarm that one first spots the tiny hamlet of Heards. Maybe half a dozen quaint cottages lie nestled in a valley (or hollow) equidistant from Nellysford, Afton, and Batesville. And center stage, at the one intersection, sits this tall and rather uninviting house.
Since it was originally designed and used as a general store, the appeal of such a structure would have to be more for its historic value than as a place to live. As you approach from the rear, it's obvious that to own this house, one would either have to have big dreams or no dreams at all.
Privacy is not an issue: Every house in the valley has a bird's eye view of everything going on. The layout resembles most general stores from the beginning of the 20th century, with a huge room in front of several anterooms for various storage and living arrangements in back.
When Heards was all apple orchards and the town depended solely on this industry, it must have been a thriving little hub of Waltons vibes. The current owner, during his nominal excavations and rehab work, has unearthed old bills and receipts, as well as many bottles offering elixirs for the conditions that used to afflict Heards' inhabitants. There's "Westphal, Hair Renewer Aid" and "Renol, a diuretic kidney mixture. Renol tends to promote a normal flow of urine." Such artifacts prompted a flow of conversation that probably had never been heard in Heards.
There's an apartment upstairs probably originally for the managers of the store (the owners lived in a big house down the road) that, despite appearances, is today quite livable. One of the first upgrades was to the gravity water system. Basically that system involves a pipe and a stream, but the current owner got tired of pulling crawfish out of the showerhead.
No state of the art here, but in the last five years a new kitchen, bath, laundry facilities, and central air have been added. Nothing's quite where it's supposed to be, though (the refrigerator has a room all to itself), and, of course, superfluous additions like a dining room would be laughable.
Several small rooms could be configured into whatever may be needed, but now they're just space. Up another flight of stairs is more living area. The main bedroom currently wins the Martha Stewart award, seeing as how it's the only room with fresh paint, a ceiling fan, and art on the wall.
The true bonus of these older buildings is the wood. The original poplar floors remain in excellent condition, and the whole house is constructed of American chestnut. At the beginning of this century, the chestnut, bigger than almost any oak, was a chief component of the eastern forest which spread from Alabama to Maine. In 1906, a bark fungus (much like the elm disease) was accidentally introduced, and by 1940 the chestnut was gone from the list of American forest trees. It was hardy material, though, and probably explains why the building is still standing.
Living here is truly a testament to the benevolence and forbearance of close neighbors. Everyone knows your business. But during rough times like snowstorms, hurricanes, and even divorce, someone is on hand with plow, chainsaw, or a bottle of wine to get you through. Just like the old days.


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The woman who triggered the investigation that led to the resignation of CIA chief David Petraeus threw lavish parties for top military brass – and also racked up debt. NBC's Kristen Welker reports.
Florida socialite Jill Kelley has emerged as a central figure in the growing scandal that's ensnared high-ranking officials at the CIA and the Pentagon.
In the latest twist, U.S. General John Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, is under investigation for exchanging what officials describe as "inappropriate" emails with Kelley, a Tampa, Fla., wife and a mother of three daughters.
That revelation came days after the resignation of Gen. David Petraeus -- a family friend of Kelley's -- from his post as director of the CIA over an admitted affair.
"This is something that's going to brand her for life," David Khawam, Kelley's brother, told TODAY. "My sister, number one, is a mother. OK, she has three kids. She's extremely dedicated to those kids. Number two, she's a wife. She's extremely dedicated to her husband. And he to her."
Officials say Kelley's complaint to the FBI over anonymous, threatening emails touched off the investigation that led to Petraeus' resignation after officials uncovered an apparent affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.
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Kelley and her husband, who is a surgeon, are close friends of the Petraeus family. Kelley, 37, was a volunteer social liaison to the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where she often hosted parties for top brass. Kelley also has a twin sister, Natalie, who is a lawyer based in Florida.
According to a senior official, the investigation that led to Petraeus' resignation began several months ago when Kelley reported she had received anonymous harassing emails from a person she didn't know.
The FBI viewed the matter as a potential case of "cyber-harassment" and it was handled "regionally" with federal prosecutors working with the FBI on the matter, the official said. At first, neither Kelley nor the FBI knew who was sending the harassing emails because they came from accounts that were not immediately identifiable.
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But the FBI was eventually able to determine they came from Broadwell. Investigators then obtained access to Broadwell's regular email account, where they uncovered her email exchanges with Petraeus and an apparent relationship between the two of them, the official said.
The FBI agent whom Kelley asked to look into the emails she received was a friend and had no further part in the investigation, a senior law enforcement official said Tuesday.
The agent sent Kelley a photo of himself with no shirt, "as a joke, a gag" at least six months before she began receiving the troubling emails, the official said. There is, the official said, no indication that the relationship between the two was anything more than a friendship. Agents discovered the shirtless photo in her e-mails, resulting in an internal investigation into whether he acted inappropriately.
The FBI has declined to identify the agent.
A statement released late on Sunday on behalf of Kelley and her husband, Scott, read: "We and our family have been friends with General Petraeus and his family for over 5 years. We respect his and his family's privacy and want the same for us and our three children."
Frequently fundraising for the Wounded Warriors Project, the Kelleys socialized with Petreaus and his wife, Holly. In 2010, the Petraeuses watched the Gasparilla parade from a tent on the Kelleys front lawn.
Kelley's brother said he stands by her sister and offers his full support.
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M4 Arms Deformed
Hi, I've been using Poser for a while and am currently running Poser Pro 2012. I've run into this peculiar problem today and can't figure out why it is happening. I attached a pic and as you can see when I utilize the Freak 4 morphs the arms deform. By the way this was not happening before and I've not downloaded any new products recently. I was hoping someone has seen this before and could help guide me into how to fix it!!! Thank you for looking!
frank0314 Posts: 10,821
What's your Poser version number. I only ask cause I'm having issues with the newest version on a pack I'm finishing up.
Your morphs or your figure are old, somehow - if the figure is labelled as SR1 or SR2 then reset the morphs from your order history, otherwise reset the figure, and install the new version.
Richard Haseltine said:Your morphs or your figure are old, somehow - if the figure is labelled as SR1 or SR2 then reset the morphs from your order history, otherwise reset the figure, and install the new version.
Ok, it took a while but I went back to my order history and reset, downloaded and re-installed Michael 4, The Freak 4 and all the morphs for each. I also updated Poser to SR3.1. I restarted my computer, Poser, downloaded a fresh copy of M4, injected all the morphs and the arms are still deformed. I'm truly stumped!!!
Looking at your image, I was wrong - the mismatched versions affected only the left arm, not both. Can you check that there's only the one \Runtime\Libraries\!DAZ\Micahel 4 folder on your system please.
rjhodge1_e41439583f Posts: 11
Was this ever resolved? I am having the same problem. Poser Pro 2012, SP3.1, Win 7.
And it's both arms, and you are setting the morph on the Body and not on a body part?
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Sorry I didn't reply earlier. In spite of checking the Notify box I didn't get an email when you posted a response.
Yes. Both arms. Exactly like the image from the first post. I have applied the morph to the body, not a body part.
Ah, it's because the figure loads with the scale option on and that works only in DS, I think. Turn FreakScaleON, the first dial in the the Freak 4 group, to 0 and the arms should stop breaking (though you will lose some of the upper body mass).
david_macrae Posts: 105
I just bought the freak 4 and had the same problem but I did not want to lose the mass so I just scaled the arms up 114% worked great for me.
I clicked on the arm and there is a scale morph dial . I turned it to 114% and it looks good.
Same problem. Scaling the arms to 114% looks perfect. Thanks!
stephendsullivan_8d05b15f9d Posts: 72
This solved my problem, too -- though I had to use 122% scaling on the shoulders on the figure with the issue (I suspect because I'd added other morphs, etc.).
Thanks so much for posting this!
i'd had the problem before, but thought it was an issue with the pose.
shadowz Posts: 56
Scaling really worked. I thought scaling forearmds seperately was not possible at first. Frustration gone. Thanks a lot guys!


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Due to a small off-the-radar project I'm working on right now, I've been building my own inverted indices. (Yes, I'm vaguely aware of discussions in DB/Web search land about whether you should store your inverted indices in a database or whether you should handroll your own. This is tangential to the point of this post.)
For those of you who don't remember your IR 101, here's the deal with inverted indices. We're a search engine and want to be able to quickly find pages that contain query terms. One way of storing our set of documents (eg., the web) is to store a list of documents, each of which is a list of words appearing in that document. If there are N documents of length L, then answering a query is O(N*L) since we have to look over each document to see if it contains the word we care about. The alternative is to store an inverted index, where we have a list of words and for each word, we store the list of documents it appears in. Answering a query here is something like O(1) if we hash them, O(log |V|) if we do binary search (V = vocabulary), etc. Why it's called an inverted index is beyond me: it's really just like the index you find at the back of a textbook. And the computation difference is like trying to find mentions of "Germany" in a textbook by reading every page and looking for "Germany" versus going to the index in the back of the book.
Now, let's say we have an inverted index for, say, the web. It's pretty big (and in all honesty, probably distributed across multiple storage devices or multiple databases or whatever). But regardless, a linear scan of the index would give you something like: here's word 1 and here are the documents it appears in; here's word 2 and its doucments; here's word v and its documents.
Suppose that, outside of the index, we have a classification task over the documents on the web. That is, for any document, we can (efficiently -- say O(1) or O(log N)) get the "label" of this document. It's either +1, -1 or ? (? == unknown, or unlabeled).
My argument is that this is a very plausible set up for a very large scale problem.
Now, if we're trying to solve this problem, doing a "common" optimization like stochastic (sub)gradient descent is just not going to work, because it would require us to iterate over documents rather than iterating over words (where I'm assuming words == features, for now...). That would be ridiculously expensive.
The alternative is to do some sort of coordinate ascent algorithm. These actually used to be quite popular in maxent land, and, in particular, Joshua Goodman had a coordinate ascent algorithm for maxent models that apparently worked quite well. (In searching for that paper, I just came across a 2009 paper on roughly the same topic that I hadn't seen before.)
Some other algorithms have a coordinate ascent feel, for instance the LASSO (and relatives, including the Dantzig selector+LASSO = DASSO), but they wouldn't really scale well in this problem because it would require a single pass over the entire index to make one update. Other approaches, such as boosting, etc., would fare very poorly in this setting.
This observation first led me to wonder if we can do something LASSO or boosting like in this setting. But then that made me wonder if this is a special case, or if there are other cases in the "real world" where you data is naturally laid out as features * data points rather than data points * features. Sadly, I cannot think of any. But perhaps that's not because there aren't any.
(Note that I also didn't really talk about how to do semi-supervised learning in this setting... this is also quite unclear to me right now!)
31 January 2010
Coordinate ascent and inverted indices...
Due to a small off-the-radar project I'm working on right now, I've been building my own inverted indices. (Yes, I'm vaguely aware of discussions in DB/Web search land about whether you should store your inverted indices in a database or whether you should handroll your own. This is tangential to the point of this post.)
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- Alexandre Passos said...
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Madigan and Lewis's Bayesian Multinomial Regression (BMR) package uses coordinate ascent with L1 priors, and is pretty scalable. They seem to have added hierarchical models since I last checked, and they allow very flexible priors with means and variances specified by dimension.
More practically speaking, who builds a reverse index and throws away the original docs? Why do you want to train coordinate-wise?
P.S. If you think of the natural indexing as a relation R(doc,term) between a doc to its terms, it naturally corresponds to a function from the doc to its set of terms. If you look at the usually definition of relation inverse, you get R^{-1}(term,doc) = R(doc,term), which corresponds to a map from terms to the set of docs in which they occur.
P.P.S. Apache Lucene's inverted indexes are flexible, fast, and easy to use, at least from Java. Lucene uses a byte-based variable length encoding of document id sequences, and can store and compute with offset info as well as simple occurrence. If there's no dynamic doc insertion/deletion, building your own reverse indices is really easy. The Managing Gigabytes book has a reasonable discussion of these issues.
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it's not just plowing through compatibility issues, but dealing with management,
training and productivity.
As for my notion that new PCs with Vista should "work right out of the
box," Dennis begs to differ. He bought a new Dell laptop with Windows Vista
Home Premium for his son, only to find that a driver that Dell itself installed
wouldn't work with the OS. Barr believes Vista shipped before it was done. "It
should have baked for another six months so it would be truly golden brown and
delicious," Barr argues.
Chuck, who "works for a large trash company," expects to move to
Vista "around 2015." Before you assume that Chuck is joking, you should
know that his shop still runs Windows 2000 on the desktop.
Stephen from the United Kingdom sees Vista as so disruptive and different that
it opens the door for Linux. I've found this to be a pretty rare response, and
believe the Windows hegemony is unthreatened (and if it is threatened, we'll
just start a Linux magazine, eh what?).
Fortunately, a couple of enlightened IT pros see things my way. Kurt advises
using Vista on new machines as you phase out the old, rather than bringing in
new XP boxes you'll be stuck with for three or more years.
Finally, Rob loaded Vista onto his OptiPlex GX270 and loves it! All of his
old apps run, they just run better. And the upgrade was easier than Paris Hilton
on a second date.
Got something to say? Write to me at [email protected].
About the Author
Doug Barney is editor in chief of Redmond magazine and the VP, editorial director of Redmond Media Group.
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